Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1950 — Page 1

Vai. XLVIII. Na. 274.

NEW RED ASSAULT IN NORTHWEST FEARED

Asks Probe Os Russian Stand With Chinese United States Calls On United Notions For Investigation Lake Success. N. Y Nov 21 - (U Pi—The United State* called upon th* United Nation* today to Investigate Russia* relation* with nationalist (‘bln* a* a "cane hielory which will serve further to alert the world to a dancer to which none of u* can be tad Iff erent.” John Footer Dullee. Republican advleer to the etata' department, told the general aaaembiy'a main political committee that the V. S. "support* In general” a propoaal made by Chiang Kal-Rhek's government to appoint a commission to invastigate Russia's abrogation of Ila treaty of 1946 with the naulonallat government. The Chinese delegation aDagas thia act endangered the peace of the far east and the world. Dulles spoke after chief nationdliat delegate Tlngfu F Tslang told the committee that the Peking ... eommsnist regime is dMntegrat tag in the Fact of mounting Chinore reetetaace. which he aaid now ka* an army nf l.M’.oee men active against the Chinese Red* on tha iMdtaMr main It Bd Happening Talang* pccposal be annotated to gather "information and facta from the two roes tries la disputa." Dulles told the Wwation poMtieal group: . "We bekeve that recent event* In China may present a caae-Ma ’•WP’w w■, 1 dorurnanted and repeated. w«i serve further to «brt tint people at Asia and the Pacific and. indeed. of all the world to • danger to which none el u* eaa he ladtf ferem ... U Aeta la being subjected to aggression cloaked by fraud, then exposure la * good preventive Os l-oure*. |g China, aa tn other countrie*. there have been iH» 1 and maladjustment* They Are par Icularly acute la China and it la quite likely that, had there been no aach thing a* Soviet commas- j tTere Te Store »4»' - Hearings Opened On City's Bond Issue City attome/ Robert 8. Anderson. light and power department , superintendent L. C. Pettibone, city auditor Ed Kauffman accompanied J R Emery, partner In the firm of Emery. Marker and Emery, consultIng engineers for the city, to Indianapolis today The city official* will be In the capital city today and Wednesday to be pretent at the hearing for the approval of the 6990.000 bond iaeue to finance the buildtag of the new auxiliary power plant. They were scheduled to meet today with bonding company officiate, and the hearing I* set for Io am. Wednesday before member* of the Indiana public service commlaalon. Business Will Be Suspended Here On Thanksgiving Day Thank-giving day will be'marked generally in Decatur Thursday by a suspension of bualneM. Moat of the city * retail stores and public and private office* will be closed for the entire day. Exception* will Include restaurant a. theater*, confectloneriea. tavern* and aervice stations Factories and Industrial plant* will be closed. The day will be marked by Church aervicea and family gathering* Protestant churches ‘ -of the city will join In a union aervlce at the Church of God Thuraday oiornlag at 9 o'clock. Service* will be held at the Zion Lutheran church both Wednesday ntght and Thursday morning, and regular masse* will be laid at St Mary a Catholic church Thuraday morning. City and county schools will . close Wednesday for the balance of the week. WEATHER ' taaaklu alauJu Awwl-MkuT cravwy Wednesday with rising tottv'l peeeture. Low tonight 24-29. High Wedneedey 2640 north. 46-99 **wt*

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ORLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IM ADAMS COUNTY

Itatioii Pummelled j By Wintry Storms Report Three Deaths Op Atlantic Coast / By Veiled Pre** Wintry atorma pummelled the nation with a wide aaaurlmeat gpf blow* today Rain squalls with gafoforee wind* hit the east coast, tornadlc wind* ripped through Mississippi, snow fell In the Upper Great Lakes and Ohio valley end a new frigid air maaa blew Into the northern plain* from Canada Meanwhile, floods harassed Nevada and CalWoreia Wind* with gnat* up to 5« mile* and hour caused at least three death* on the Atlantic seaboard last night. Walter Roberts of New York was electrocuted when a live wire wa* blown down on bls automobile. Albert Wedgsbury of Irvington. N J., drowned In Raritan Hay when the blow capalaed hl* boat, and Ru dolpb WI tael wa* killed when a piece of plywood picked up by the wind struck him In the forehead The Truckee river ftooded downto«h Wein. Nev, and eddied Into the city’s plush gambling house* While national guardsmen and civilian votauteers sandbagged downtown bonding*. Castao opera tors aaid "well gamble with our boot* on We woat. give ap the fort." la California, where flood* tn th* rich central valley have eaa* ed seven death* and an estimated 6H.000.0w dootoge. the Amerleaa river endaagaved Bacrameoto. the etate cppiial. ~~ A new cold wove sent the mercury tumbling to seven' above aero thia morning nt Minot. N D-. and 1 was aloe above at Bradford, 111.. U at Mavra. Moat . U at torn CUy, la., and 1» at Chicago ta to iadtow* tadfaaepOßa. Nov ,21 ~(VP1Tbe mercery ptemmeted u> It degrees at Rpeacer today, the coldest weather of the tteaaon. aa the weather bureau told Hooxicra to stand by lor a chilly, snowless Thanksgiving. A five-day outlook said temperatare* would average tffo to three degree* below normal for late No-j vember. sad tbers would be few { change* from day to day: ' In addition to the low at Spencer, j lAfayette reported 15 degrees, Marlon It. and Indianapolis and .Tdrre Haute botk 18 a* the cold i wave sent th* mercury *plnning below 20 over most of Indiana. Four State Schwls Ask Larger Budgets Request 13 Million Above Current Fund Indianapolis, Nov. 21. —(UP)— (>f ’ | b'l | 't-r‘r four state colleges and unlrersitlto Mid to-; day they needed M?.**o.ooo ol state money for the next two year* • beginning July I. The bpdget. 112.3C6.MS above current appropriation*, were submitted to the state budget depart meat Jointly by Purdue. Indiana. Ball Stats and Indiana State after month* of combined .tudlea The achoola. which' combined budget regueat* under a mandate of the 1M» legislature, reported the! principal need for higher appropriations stemmed from loss of Income resulting from a decline in veteran earoitanent "Por the past several years, a aubetaatial portion Ipf the in.-ome for higher education has been pro vlded by the federal government through the a. I. Bill of Right*." the school prealdeata said. "Fund* to replace this loea of Income must now be borne by the state of Ind laaa." Other need* for additional apprctprlations were Hated as rising price* of supplies and equipment, adluatments of faculty aalarle*. and Increases for service and clerical MaEa. Official* of th* tour achoola aaid th*l» requsat* represented "actual need*" end any change in the amount* requested should be made In "ratio to the total*" In order the change may be shared by each instltutloh - —-■ Combined building rsquecto were sutanltted by the achoola several wweka ago. AgprdbrtMiou* requested annual ly for the next two year* compared wM annual need* of the men V* IMP* Atol

RALPH KCNNKOY (abovei. Viaalla. Cal.. Highway patrolman retusgajto’ Pledre. Cal., with two of 22 people he rescued from the Kings River floodwater*. Torrential dbsre goers brought swift flood* In cen tral California valleys over the weekend. ” i

Ask More Money For Atonic Production _ Atom Commission Seeks Added Funds Washington. Nor. 21 (l*P) - The atonrt.— energy tommtseton will ask the "lame-duck congress to vote extra money Immedialely to avoid delay in a new program to “expand atomic energy production (bcilitlea." Bea Burnet R. Maybaak. D. ». C, today that plan* te reqeeM the money were revealed In a let- , ter from Carleton Shugg, the | AKCxrteputv general manager, to i iTalrman Joseph (’ O'Mahoney.: D. wyo. and members of hl* senate appropriauona subcomfnittee on Independent office* In the letter. Shugg did not reveal any detaila of the proposed program. But, “he wrote Maybank, the fund* ar* needed."to avoid delay" in getting "critical Items" for expanding- production faclll'ie*. Maybank„.A..member of the a|>propriatirtaa rubconrtnlttee. said Shugg already has talked,, with O'Mahoney. "I will assist to *<-e that they get what they need." Maybank told reporter*. He aaid atomic energy "should be number one” for any funda voted by the bobtalled congressional session beginning Monday Charles Cook Heads Knights Os Columbus Charles F a n elected grand knight of the Knights o f Columbus laat evening to succeed Leo OlHIg. who resigned. Cook formerly was deputy grand knight. The vacancy In this post villi lie rilled by election at a later date, officer* of the lodge stated The regular lodge session was held laat evening. Arraign Fort Wayne Officials December 4; Additional Time Is Granted Defendants Fort Wayne. Ind . Nov. ’l-(UF) j —Mayor Henry E. Hrannlng. Jr... arpi four of the five men accused, with him. will be arraigned Dec. 1 on charge* of conspiracy, bribery and perjury in connection with the city'* purchase-of suppile*. The sixth man. A. Eugene Martin. president of the Martin Coall Co. which allegedly oven-barged I the city, will be arraigned Nov. 27., Hrannlng was accused of conspiracy to commit a felony with Martin. Harold F. Battenberg, and city councilman Charles Boyer.. Chief of police Lester H. Elsenhut' and police Capt. Oregor Klug were ' accused of perjury, and Martin and i Boyer of bribery. I The continuance* were granted* when attorney* for the defendant*; •aid they needed additional time to - •tudy the chargee.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 21,1950

Renoflooded * ByWafersOf Truckee River - Over Million Dollar 7 Damage Caused; Two Pertons Ata Killed Reno. N«v.. Nov. 21—(UPI—Tbe ■ Trnckee rtv«r flooded the "biggem I little city in the world" today. I touching off a rodnd of parllei in I the town's gambling caalnos and hotels by stranded resident*........ The celebration flxgled out at ! dawn when, the town discovered , the flood waters had *wept Into more than 70 downtown itorea and office building*, caused damage in excess of 11.900.0 M and coat two live* The celebrents were acme S.MO resident*, divorce-aeeker* and visitor' who came downtown to watch 'he Truckee Inch to the top of It* 80-<pot retaining walls, then spill over into the city's street* to ■ depth of thr*" feet The five brid gea across the river, linking downtown with part of tbe residential area, were closed at th* height of the flood and the spectator* adjourned to the bar*, gambling casino* and hotel*. The morning after brought po* slbly Reno's only water-inspired hangover. The Truckee crested before dawn, leaving in Its wake debrisclogged streets, ruined store* and three feet of chocolate-colored water sloshing around basement* •nd first floor* of downtown building*. City engineer Elliott Cann said damage would run Into the millions. Frederick G. Caahman, 5-L buyer for a department store, died from a heart attack while trying to bail water out of a shop and Jamea Patterson. 21. Sparks. Nev., drowned in the raging river —— 900 HoHi*le*e Sacramento, Calif.. Nov. 21 — • (UP)—An estimated 900 persona | were driven from their homes In a suburban area nortli of here today an.i Gov Earl Warren declared a "state of emergency" as a result of the flood situation here and in the San Joaquin valley. Warren* secretaries said the i declaration allowed the state to furnish men. equipment and money to distressed local government* Setting new record* each inch it rose, the American river crested at 45.6 feet at 9 a. m. CST today, and muddy water flowed over th* ] 39-fooF north bank Into a newly developed reaidentail section. | The sheriff's office estimated that 900 person* had been evacuated from their home* in the ■ection. many of them by boat. About 4.009 acre* were inundated. I | NO RABER THURBOAY I In accordance with annual custom, the Deeatur Dally Democrat will net publish an > edition Thursday, Nev. 29, ' whleh M Ttamkaffivlng Day-

Urges Government To Slash Expense Non-Defense Budget CiitAskodßyC. C ’ ' . .a., ' ■WkahUlgton. '7«»v.' 2T—(UPT— The U- 8 Chamber of Commerce tojd eougresa today that it can k avoid raising taxes oa business by lopping 16,009,090.000 a year from the aonrdatenM budget. The ecuaotny course was recotni mended by BUawwrth <?. Alvord, chamber finance expert, aa a substltuta for aa excess profits tax en corporaUons which President Truman requested. In a statement prepared for the : house way* and maans committee,. : Alvord said the excess profit* levy iof some 1i.W0.000.e00 would en courage inflation. The conse queue**, be said, "are too gruesome to play with." If congress insists on an excess profits levy, he added, it should be limited to two year* and- hedged to prevent dipping into "normal” profits and funds needed tor industrial growth. The government already is taking about half of all corporation earning*. Alvord said Such a rate can be carried" for only a limited period of time” and a tax ch normal profit* above that "cannot be Justified," he said. f Saying the military expansion program to fight Communism should be kept on a pay-as-you-go basis. Alvord Insisted the first step should be a wholesale reduction in all other kinds of spending and safe-guards to avoid waste. The committee has limited It* hearings to an excess profits tax and the Democratic members, trying to rush a bill for the meeting of congress on Monday, hope to wind up hearing* tomorrow County To Receive Bids December 4-5 Commissioners To Meet Next Month The county commissioners will be in session December 4 and 5 to receive bids on printing and highway supplies for 1951. Thurman I. Drew, auditor, announced today. On Dec. 4. bids from contractor* for furnishing ? book ». records, blanks and office stationery to the county offices will be received up to 2 p m Th* highway requisition totals about 3199.900. the largest item being 50,009 ton* of stone These proposal* will be received Dec. S. -Other items in the highway hud get include asphalt, bituminous concrsle, oil. tile, lumber, grave! and screenings Bid* will be received tor a six month*' supply of gasoline for highway trucks and i motor vehicle*. I Tbe requisition* are on file at tbe auditor's office and bidding forms may be obtained there. It wa* I announced. Tbe legal notice* do nlot Hat the category of supplies. ' merely giving the date and time ot receiving the blds.

Communist Resistance Virtually Disappears Along Northeast Front

6hml Jury Ordered To Report Nov. 27 Judge Issues Call For Jury To Report Judge Myles F. Parrish has issued a call tor the grand Jury for next Monday. November 27. to investigate such matters as the proeecator might bring before it I It is believed that the Jurors *lll be concerned primarily with filing the annual reports for tbe court house, imunly home. Jail, and other governmental unit*. The grand Jurfn pdll be under the guidance of pros Muting attorney Severin Scburger. — Thia i* the ae<x>nd call tor • grand jury this year. The tirel first time, last spring, the Jurors were called to Investigate changes arising from the sex parties being engaged in by Adam* county youths. At that time seven indictment* wet* returned.- the youth* pleaded not guilty, and no sub**queut action has been taken. It I* not believed that any criminal case* will be brought before the grand jury at this time. 'recenTiy- aMtHHMT by Jury commissioners Ed Borling and Frank Rowley last week l» dud* Carl Mie*. Harold Htatoben, WUllsm Bryaa. Richard Bleak*. Homsr. F*Uy, Christian Innlger Rayraot,’ 'I tH. Bryson Fetters, flarvey Crandell. Daniel Qrtce. Martha Oalltueyer and Albert trick. Judge Parrish stated that be *1” hame tbe baftiff to serve the grand Jury lajer this week “J" -■ ———-«-*—** Urges CIO To Work With Other Groups Sen. Paul Douglas Convention Speaker Chicago. Nov. 21— (UP)— The CIO should work together with farmers and white collar workers <o ln«ure election of its. candidates it future elections, says Sen. Paul Douglas. D, Hi. Douglas spoke yesterday before the ClO's national convention here. Delegate* were expected to get ■heir first look at proposed resolutions today but no major floor fight was expected on any ot the propoaal*. The convention, one of th* dullest ta years, wa* in contrast to last y*ar's ma«tlng when tbe CIO launched its campaign to rid Itself of Communist*. Henry Morgentbau. Jr., former secretary ot th* treasury, will address this afternoon's session. Douglas said Ute Republican victory in 'his yearti election was due to: 1. The usual mid-term awing against the party in power that la "almost an American custom " i 2. Bad news from Korea In the, last days of the campaign 3. "McCarthytom" ta the fo«ta of GOP charges ot Communists in the administration. He said the election results were no indication, however, of how th* 1953 president lai race will go. He said the Democrats' defeat this year wasn't as serious a* in 1946 when they cant* back to „win in 1948 "If liberal force* could get up and get off the mat in 1946, they can do it in 1952." he said|. However, he urged the CIO to realise that voters want to think for themselves without taking the "hand-me-down opinions'', of union leader*. The CIO. he said, should learn to work with other group*, particularly farmers and .while collar worker*, for progreesiv* measures. Aa an example, he cited tbe farm .equipment industry as it operate* at Rock Island sad Moline. 111.. where factory worker* and office employe* depend for their livelihood upon the welfare ot farmer*. He aaid white collar workers especially need the help of union* in obtaining housing and protection against unfair taxation and high price*.

Speaker Thursday | I I I ■ I I ■ i ■ The Rev. Lawrence T. Norris, pastor of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, will be the speaker al the union Tkankagtvtng - service, with alt Protestant churches partit-ipatiug. at 9 o'clock Thanksgiving morning . st the Cbureh of God. - . - rrin - --j-.-r Union Thanksgiving Service On Thnrsdny Hold Union Service At Chart* Os God I The first union service ever to I be held on Tkaaksglvtii*. is to be held at the Church of God. on Cleveland street, two blocks northI west of the Adams county memorial hospital, Thanksgiving morning, at 9 o'clock. Heretofore, the union services were held on Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving, but st the last regular monthly meeting of tbe Decatur, ministerial association, the Rev. A. C E. GHiander. pastor ot the First Presbyterian church, suggested that this year the union | rerrtee, with all the churches co j operating, be held on Thsnkvgly- ■ Ing The suggestion was Immediatc'y accepted by the ministerial as-' ociatlon, feeling that the citiaMisj of Decatur would welcome an bp; nortunlty to gather together to give ’Thank* unto Ood, for tbe many blessfiigs He bestow* upon them, not only oti Thanksgiving, but every day. Th* program tor the union aerv. Ice is us follows: ; Call to worship: Church ot Ood I choir. “The Little White Church 11* Calling." f • invocation: The Rev. John E Chambers, pastor. Trinity Evangel! cal United Brethren church, and president of the Decatur mint* I terlal association Hymn. "Come, Thou Almighty King.” Hymn: “O Lord of Heaven and Earth and Sea.” ‘ Scripture reading: The Rev. Samuel Emerick, pastor. First ' Methodist church. • Solo: "Sweet Hour of Prayer.” -Mr*- Kenneth Roop.— Prayer: Rev. Etnerick . Anthem: Church of God choir. Offering: Rev Wrn C. Feller, pastor. Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Solo: Mrs. Earl Geyer. Sermon: Rev. Lawrence T. Norris. pastor, Union Cliapel Evangelical United Brethren church. Hymn: "Lord. Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing." Benediction: Rev Robert H Hammpnd. pastor. First Baptist church.

Price Five Cents

7Hi U. S. Division ' Takes Border Town Directly Opposite Manchuria Today .Tokyo, Wednesday. Nov 22 — (UPr—Communist resistance virtually disappeared on tbe Korean aortbeast front today in th* wake ot tbe V. B. 7th division surge to he Maneburian border, bat Ameri•an commanders feared a new assault by 190.990 Reds was building up in the northwest The south Korean capital di- | vision, seat of th* American 7th. rrok4 ’brough tbe last known Com j mwdst defense south of the port jf Chongjin and drove to within >» ‘ mile* of th* city and to within 67 miles of tbe Russian border. In the center of tbe peninsula, nearly 100 miles to the south. Chinese and north Korean Communists were pulling back rapidly, apparently ta the face of ah enveloping .threqj by American and south Korsan force* southwest of the Chosin reeervqir However. Communist reinforcement* oace mere were pouring across YataJ river bridgehead* ta tbe northwest, and lateHtgebev f«port* said tbe enemy wa* setting ■up strong ■"Woektag” potatt axtride main roads leading to the Chinese border oa a line running from . Cbtrngju near th* Teltow Sea coast, through Taechou and Un«*n to Hulchon I These cßie* are eight to 26 miles beyend prerelt ’Wied NatUßd" i lines In the eenter of the United Natlons east-wen Hue actoss Korea. the Puerto Rican 66th regiment of the U. 8 3rd division occupied a town gs miles west of Hsmhung and best off s counter-attack by a Red company North ot them, the • oath Korean 3rd division drove north abd west from Huksurl. ,f nIl last Monday.. Huksuri, 22 miles southwest ot the Citotta reservoir, had be -n aa assembly point for regrouped Communist force*. Still farther north. U. 8 marines , ntitd ou from th* big hydro- ! ec. tic reservoir. ; 41 three movement* menaced the flank ot the Communis: army which massed in the center of the I oenlßsuls two week* ago with th* i apparent intention ot driving a v*dge be ween UN tore** on the fast and west coasts. The 7:h divhlon selaed the abas toned, bembsdout border city of lyesanjin without opposition and übilaatiy widened its hold on the Jutb bank of the Yalu river directly opposite Communist Manchurts Rut however great the morale factor ta the swift dash of the "th, he tact remained that the Communists still hold all but a few miles of the twisting Yalu and TuI men river tines which separate the 700 mile north Korea frontier from China and Liberia. A spokesman tor Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the Chinese Communists have completed a aew defense Hne on the approaches to Sinulju. temporary capital of tbe Korean Reda, and tbe Yalu river power ptaat ta northwest Korea. First Tabulation Os Balloting For Christinas Queen First tabulation of ballots for the Miss Merry Christma*" contest were announced today by L. R. Zlntsmaater, chairman of the coneat. the tabulation revealing Miss Lois White. Decatur high school entree, is leading the field, followed closely by Miss Eileen Gelmer, of Decatur Catholic In. all. a total ot 4.875 ballots lave been cast in the contest that vili officially end December 2. J*o lays before the Santa (Teas parade. it is ta this parade that ths leading candidate will ride on the queen’s float along with her attendant*. Individual ballots counted to date iaciude 1.274 for Miaa White: T TBB for Mias Getraer: 799 for Ml** Bernlta Thieme repreeeottng Montuou'h: *39 for Ml»» Shtrley Fox of Pleasant -Mill*' 626 foe Mt** Carolvn Egly. of Adam* Cen . tral snd 469 tor Miaa Pat Johnson of Jefferson